US News Andrew Coffee IV was acquitted of felony murder after he fired at police officers who raided his home in the middle of the night. After Coffee fired at officers, police fired back killing Alteria Woods - the woman Coffee is on trial for killing. Coffee was...
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What We Have to Gain from a National Default
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 6, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Biden administration's rhetoric on the debt ceiling has become nothing short of apocalyptic. The Treasury Department has announced that a failure to increase the debt ceiling "would have catastrophic economic consequences" and would, as NBC news claims, constitute...
News Roundup 7/26/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 26, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The New York Post reports the NY state government is considering divesting from Ben and Jerry’s parent company in the state government workers' pension fund. [Link] The Biden Administration decided against investigating possible civil rights abuses in NY...
Federal Police Beat Veteran, Supreme Court May Hear Case
by John Kramer | Feb 2, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
José Oliva survived the bloodiest year in Vietnam, but he most feared for his life when he was brutally beaten in an unprovoked attack by federal officers in a Veterans Affairs hospital in his hometown of El Paso, Texas that left him with several injuries, two of...
Testing Positive for COVID-Bootlicking
by Jim Bovard | Jan 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
The COVID pandemic has shown how easy it is to make people hate anyone who is not as frightened as themselves. Since last March, politicians and health officials have fanned fears to commandeer far more control over Americans’ daily lives. And millions of Americans...
Libertarian Messaging For 2021: Part 2
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 7, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
Let’s just jump right in since you can go to part 1 and see my yada, yada qualifications and such. Here’s the Tweet: End all corporate bailouts/welfare For those of you who remember the great recession of 2008, or have read about it in books such as Tom Woods’...
Short-sighted state governments rack up $1 Trillion in liabilities
by Bradley Thomas | Feb 18, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
As if the national debt and federal entitlement liabilities weren’t enough. Now we get word that state governments have racked up more than a trillion dollars in unfunded healthcare benefits for state government workers. That’s trillion – with a ‘T’. In a report...
A National $15 Minimum Wage Would Be A Huge Mistake
by Germinal Van | Jul 9, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
The debate about raising the minimum wage is a hot topic among presidential candidates and voters across the spectrum. The whole Democratic Party is in favor of increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and 56 percent of the American electorate agrees with...
Bicoastal Hoity-Toities and the Imperial City
by Craig Cantoni | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog
As measured by household income, nine of the twenty wealthiest counties in the USA surround metro Washington, D.C., or if you will, the Imperial City. Three of the twenty wealthiest counties are in New Jersey. My wife and I used to live in one of them, and, to top it...
The Antiwar Comic: Every School Kid Knows
by Tony DiGerolamo | Dec 17, 2016 | Blog
Today's Antiwar Comic is more of a civics lesson than anything else. It occurred to me that we teach all this high and mighty wonderful stuff about America and it's kinda b.s. For more comics visit the Webcomic Factory.
Government Productivity Stinks
by Craig Cantoni | Dec 11, 2016 | Blog
Productivity is the key to prosperity. And technological innovations are the key to productivity—and to the dislocations of workers Not surprisingly, government productivity stinks relative to private-sector productivity. Before getting into the numbers, let’s go on...
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The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
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